Slovak National Council

The Slovak National Council (Slovak:Slovenská národná rada (SNR)) was an organisation that was constituted at various times in the 19th and 20th centuries to act as the highest representative of the Slovak nation. It originated in the mid-19th century as a focus for Slovak nationalist aspirations to break away from the Kingdom of Hungary but its bid for independence was suppressed. The second SNR was more successful, issuing a celebrated declaration of Slovakian independence in 1918, though it too was ultimately dissolved by the state after Czechoslovakia was formed. The third SNR coordinated Slovak resistance to the Nazis and their Slovak puppet government, and evolved into a Communist-controlled organ of state power after the Second World War. Following the 1989 Velvet Revolution it was transformed into the new democratically elected Slovak parliament. A number of mostly short-lived and not particularly influential Slovak National Councils were also proclaimed abroad between the 1920s and 1940s, the last one seeking to mobilise Slovak émigré resistance to Communist rule.

It organised the Slovak Uprising in 1848-1849 within the Revolution of 1848, as well as executive power in parts of Western Slovakia occupied by united Austrian-Slovak forces within their fight against the Hungarians.

The first meeting on the territory of Slovakia was in the house of Mrs. Koléniová in Myjava.
On 19 September 1848, the first national gathering of Slovaks took place in Myjava as part of the First Slovak Volunteer Campaign (from Vienna via Moravia to Slovakia). Ľudovít Štúr declared the independence of the Slovak nation from Hungary at the gathering. However, the Slovak National Council administered only Myjava and its surroundings and the volunteers were defeated after a few days.

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National Council (Namibia)

The 26 National Council members are chosen by regional councils, which are directly elected for a term of six-years. Each of the 13 regional councils chooses two of its members to serve on the National Council. The last regional council elections were held on 26 and 27 November 2010.

Political party distribution in the current National Council is as follows:

Slovak National Council

The Slovak National Council (Slovak:Slovenská národná rada (SNR)) was an organisation that was constituted at various times in the 19th and 20th centuries to act as the highest representative of the Slovak nation. It originated in the mid-19th century as a focus for Slovak nationalist aspirations to break away from the Kingdom of Hungary but its bid for independence was suppressed. The second SNR was more successful, issuing a celebrated declaration of Slovakian independence in 1918, though it too was ultimately dissolved by the state after Czechoslovakia was formed. The third SNR coordinated Slovak resistance to the Nazis and their Slovak puppet government, and evolved into a Communist-controlled organ of state power after the Second World War. Following the 1989 Velvet Revolution it was transformed into the new democratically elected Slovak parliament. A number of mostly short-lived and not particularly influential Slovak National Councils were also proclaimed abroad between the 1920s and 1940s, the last one seeking to mobilise Slovak émigré resistance to Communist rule.

According to the vice-chair of the NationalCouncil of the SlovakRepublic (the unicameral legislature), Lucie Ďuriš Nicholsonová (SaS), the Interior Minister is just showing his incompetence and lack of awareness about the country's laws and their application in practice....

Chair of the SlovakNationalParty Andrej Danko will not attend the planned meeting of the coalition council scheduled for August 15. He announced it to his coalition partners via a text message already on the evening of August 14, the SITA newswire reported ... ....